Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company, has hiked its international call tariffs by 10 percent for certain destinations for both prepaid and postpaid users while also reducing benefits on add-on services for prepaid users.
According to reports, an Airtel spokesperson has reportedly said tariff rationalisation is a continuous process and a function of market dynamics. With the correction of tariffs for a few international destinations, they continue to remain competitive and deliver value to their customers.
Further, it has been reported Airtel’s prepaid schemes offering users flexible billing plans and reduced roaming tariffs, will now offer fewer benefits for a validity period of six months as compared to one year. As per sources, the operator has reduced the data limit from 2GB to 1GB for US$ 1.91, while also cutting down on the price for regular data download to US$ 0.002 per 10 KB from the earlier charge of US$ 0.005 per KB.
According to company reports, the operator witnessed its seventh consecutive profit decline in the third quarter results, reporting a net profit of US$ 200.5 million down by 38.17 percent from US$ 324.4 million recorded during the same period last year.